page_title: Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
section_title: Building
hierarchical_section_title: Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna / Building
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Laufberger Ferdinand Julius Wilhelm, * 16. Februar 1829, † 16. Juli 1881 Wien. Maler, Graphiker, Professor an der Kunstgewerbeschule des Österreichischen Museums für Kunst und Industrie (ernannt am 29. Juni 1868). Von 1871-1873 und 1878-1881 Direktor an der selbigen. Lehrer der Brüder Ernst und Gustav Klimt sowie Franz von Matsch. Von ihm stammt die malerische Ausschmückung des Treppenhauses in dem von Heinrich v. Ferstel erbauten österreichischen Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK). GT Inschrift: DEM UNVERGESSLICHEN LEHRER FERDINAND LAUFBERGER HISTORIENMALER PROFESSOR A.D.KUNSTGEWERBESCHULE DES K.K.OEST.MUSEUMS GEB.16.FEB.1829 GEST.16.JULI 1881 SEINE DANKBAREN SCHÜLER
context_page_description: The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts is an arts and crafts museum located at Stubenring 5 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt. Besides its traditional orientation towards arts and crafts and design, the museum especially focuses on architecture and contemporary art.
context_section_description: From 1869, a new museum complex for the Imperial Royal Museum of Art and Industry was built at Stubenring 5 in the style of the Neo-Renaissance, according to plans by Heinrich von Ferstel. The painter Ferdinand Laufberger made a frieze in sgraffito and the fresco paintings on the mirror vault of the staircase. On 15 November 1871, the museum opened to the public within a big opening. It was the first museum building on the Vienna Ring Road. Laufberger's cartoons were lost, and so around 1893 the mural painting of the figures on the outer façade were recreated by students of Karl Karger of the School of Applied Arts. In 1875 the Austrian Museum was joined by an adjacent new building for the School of Applied Arts at Stubenring 3, whose plans were also drawn up by Heinrich von Ferstel. It was opened in 1877.
  In 1906, Ludwig Baumann designed an extension building for the museum located at Weiskirchnerstraße 3, it was completed in 1908. After World War II repair of war-related damage to the museum building lasted until 1949. 
  In 1989, a complete renovation of the museum's old buildings and construction of both a two-story underground depot and a connecting wing by with a generous storage facility and additional exhibition space began. After this renovation, the museum opened in 1993. Its showrooms were designed by artists such as Barbara Bloom, Eichinger or Knechtl, Günther Förg, Gangart, Franz Graf, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, Peter Noever, Manfred Wakolbinger and Heimo Zobernig. In 2014, a repositioning of the Permanent Collection Carpets with an artistic intervention by Füsun Onur and a repositioning of the Permanent Collection Asia, whose artistic design was entrusted to Tadashi Kawamata in 2014 and 2016, took place.
  The building in the Weiskirchnerstraße is reserved for temporary exhibitions, while the rooms at Stubenring host the permanent collections and the MAK DESIGN LAB.
caption: For the unforgettable teacher Ferdinand Laufberger
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